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How a pocket watch saved a Riverside businessman’s life in 1888 bank robbery

How a pocket watch saved a Riverside businessman’s life in 1888 bank robbery

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The Press-Enterprise

On Dec. 13, 1888, Edgar H. “Teddy” Morse was at work as cashier in the San Bernardino National Bank. Morse, 39, was a popular and well-known man in San Bernardino. One of the other people in the bank at the time was C.W. Filkins of Riverside.